Promises Promises

In 2006 Nancy Pelosi promised the American people that if they would vote to give Democrats control of Congress, making her Speaker of the House, they would come to Washington and 'drain the swamp.'

More than a year later, Democrats have converted the alleged Republican swamp into a vast pit of quicksand into which America's national and financial security are slowly sinking.

Democrats chortle over the president's dismal 24 percent popularity rating, but they have to look up to see it from their own popularity rating of a tiny 11 percent.

Madame Speaker, once hailed by the media and her fellow Democrats as a shrewd politician who would turn her tenure as the first woman to occupy the Speaker's chair into a stellar performance, has been revealed as a bumbling San Francisco-style far-out liberal Democrat with nary a notion as to what this nation really stands for.

Despite their protests to the contrary, her party has revealed itself to be Marxist in every sense of the word. Without exception, the social programs they espouse are rooted in socialist doctrines. They distrust the American people to manage their own affairs without the deadly hand of the federal government gripping them by the shoulders and draining their wallets.

No matter what the problem, they have two approaches to solve it -- spending vast amounts of money on socialist-style solutions, and paying for them by raising taxes -- allegedly on the 'rich,' who appear in Democrat eyes to be any family earning more than $50 a week.

That, however, is not the most obvious result of the voters' decision to oust the Republicans from control of Capitol Hill (a fate they brought upon themselves by acting like wild-spending Democrats). It's the revelation that the Democrat majority is absolutely incompetent and totally unfit to govern any nation.

You need look no further than the Speaker Pelosi's willingness to poke a sharp stick into the eyes of one of America's closest allies in the war on terror, and one of our strongest supporters, Turkey.

Ignoring the fact that Turkish support is vital to our troops in Iraq, the madam of the House threw her full weight behind a resolutionto condemn Turkey for something that happened nearly a century ago, and in which not a single living being in Turkey had any part.

Why? Simply because it would please a voting bloc in Mrs. Pelosi's home state.

Fortunately, a number of her fellow House Democrats suddenly realized that she was leading them into the quicksand, and saner heads seem to be prevailing as Pelosi's political turkey heads for the chopping block.

This, however, is symptomatic of the problem of handing power to the current Leftist-dominated Democrat party, which has a two-pronged approach to governing the nation:do everything possible to win elections by satisfying certain various voting blocs no matter how much their policies threaten the safety and security of the American people, and move as far to the left as possible without revealing their total dedication to the coercive policies of Karl Marx.

To put it simply, this party is wholly owned by the unhinged George Soros left, the teachers' unions, big labor bosses, trial lawyers, and assorted pie-in-the-sky liberals shaking in their boots over the imagined threat that Earth and everyone on it is in the process being barbecued by Mother Nature.

In an effort to mollify the rabid anti-war left that wants us out of Iraq now -- no matter what the dreadful consequences for world peace and an oil-dependent world economy -- the Democrat Congressional leadership has sought to have it both ways: make loud noises about ending the war, while throwing up their hands and telling all those nuts in San Francisco that they are at the mercy of big, bad George Bush who is using his massive 24 percent popularity to tie their hands and frustrate their efforts to cut and run.

I won't argue that the Republicans didn't deserve to have their ears pinned back in 2006, but who knew that in getting rid of one crew of Washington insiders the nation was put in the hands of the gang that can't shoot straight, or even figure out which end of the gun to point.

Mike Reagan, the eldest son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network. Look for Mike's newest book, 'Twice Adopted.'E-mail comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com.